The use and prevention of procedural restraint in children - A scoping review.

Problem: In healthcare facilities, restraint may be used on children to perform treatments or procedures. Restraint can be harmful, and little is known about how to prevent the use of restraint during medical procedures. A scoping review was conducted to find and map knowledge about (1) the use and prevention of restraint and (2) approaches, such as interventions and guidelines, available to prevent the use of restraint.

Development of calibration technique for underwater transducers in free field conditions below 1000 Hz with results on an acoustical recorder.

A calibration technique with potential for low frequencies and sizeable systems of underwater transducers is being developed at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. The technique is based on the three-transducer spherical wave reciprocity method for use in an ice-covered lake with a depth of 220 m in the Swedish arctic zone. The calibration is performed at a depth of approximately 100 m with inter-transducer separations of 50 m, 86.

Shock index as a predictor for mortality in trauma patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: The primary aim was to determine whether a shock index (SI) ≥ 1 in adult trauma patients was associated with increased in-hospital mortality compared to an SI < 1.

Methods: This systematic review including a meta-analysis was performed in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines. EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library were searched, and two authors independently screened articles, performed the data extraction, and assessed risk of bias.

Parenting stress and external stressors as predictors of maternal ratings of child adjustment.

This study sought to disentangle the effects of different kinds of stress on maternal ratings of child externalizing and internalizing problems, social inhibition, and social competence, with a primary focus on parenting stress. The relations were explored in a sample consisting of mothers of 436 children (Mage  = 7 years) in Sweden. Half the sample had had early clinical contacts during infancy due to child regulation problems, and the rest were mothers without known such early contacts.

An efficacy study of a combined parent and teacher management training programme for children with ADHD.

Background: Several parent training programmes and behavioural teacher training programmes built on learning theory have been developed for problem prevention and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) during the last few decades. Group format has often been used for parent training but single-subject designs are more common in teacher training. More studies have focussed on pre-school children than on older children, and a minority have been conducted in public mental health settings.

Feeding and sleeping problems in infancy--a follow-up at early school age.

Background: Feeding and sleeping problems are common during infancy. Many regulatory problems of this kind are connected to various child and family factors. This study is a follow-up of children with early feeding and/or sleeping problems, 6 years after clinical contacts.

Predictive knowledge of stimulus relevance does not influence top-down suppression of irrelevant information in older adults.

Our ability to focus attention on task-relevant stimuli and ignore irrelevant distractions is reflected by differential enhancement and suppression of neural activity in sensory cortices. Previous research has shown that older adults exhibit a deficit in suppressing task-irrelevant information, the magnitude of which is associated with a decline in working memory performance. However, it remains unclear if a failure to suppress is a reflection of an inability of older adults to rapidly assess the relevance of information upon stimulus presentation when they are not aware of the relevance beforehand.

Feeding disorders related to nutrition.

Aim: To study the relationship between early feeding disorders and nutritional intake during the second and third year of life.

Methods: 15 children, nine girls and six boys, with a feeding problem identified at the Specialist Child Health Care Unit at a mean age of 14.5 mo were matched with respect to age and sex with healthy control children.

Parental stress in families of 2 year old extremely low birthweight infants.

Objective: To compare the parental stress in the families of 2 year old extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants with that in control families, and to compare the stress of mothers with that of fathers.

Methods: The study population included all parents of ELBW infants (birth weight < 1000 g and gestational age at least 22 gestational weeks) born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997 in Helsinki University Hospital and followed at the hospital's neuropaediatric department. The parents of full term, healthy infants born subsequent to each ELBW infant were eligible for the control group.

A structural modeling approach to the understanding of parenting stress.

Tested and cross-validated a multidimensional model of predictors of parenting stress on data from a population-based sample of Swedish mothers (N = 1,081) with children ages 6 months to 3 years. The study was a cross-sectional questionnaire study, focusing on the explanation of variance in parenting stress. Structural equation modeling procedures permitted disentanglement of total, direct, and indirect effects.

Parental stress, psychosocial problems and responsiveness in help-seeking parents with small (2-45 months old) children.

Experienced parental stress in 75 mothers and 65 fathers seeking help for their young child (M = 14.5 months; SD = 9.4 months) in a Specialist Child Health Centre was examined and related to child problem load, psychosocial problems and parental problems in responding to the child's signals and demands.

A measure of parental stress in mothers with small children: dimensionality, stability and validity.

Self-reported parental stress was investigated in three samples of mothers with small children, using a Swedish version of the Parenting Stress Index (PSI). Dimensionality in experienced stress using items from six PSI Parent Domain subscales and eight new items was examined in factor analyses of data from a nationwide representative sample. Cross-validation proved the chosen factor pattern to be stable.